Morning journal and courier., 1887-09-15
LOCAL N K w g.
Brief MeRGIOn.

Brief Mention.
 Japanese napkins at Dorman's.
 Governor Lounsbury and the Connecticut delegation left yesterday for Philadelphia.
 The condition of Rev. Father Kelly, of Bridgeport, remained about the same yester- day.
 union of the Eighth c. V. in Torringtor yesterday.
 Ex-Sheriff Aaron Sanford, of Newtown has been very ill for two weeks with & com plication of ailments, but is now improving
 The First company Governors Foot Guard with Colts band passed through this city al 3:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, bound fo1 Philadelphia.
 Several boatmen were out yesterday pick ing up the floating jute which was lost from the steam barge Scudder on Tuesday, as stated yesterday.
 Mrs. 0. R. Raynor of Shelton, who eloped with her husbrnd's hired man, was about fif- ty years old and the German, Alonzo Casper, about thirty five.
 At the monthly meeting of Company I, Meriden, the project of sending team of six to the proposed regimental shoot at Quinni- piac will be talked up.
 The Twelfth c. V. veterans 1euuite in Hartford to-day. General L. A. Dickinson, Chief Hendrick and MT. J. w. De Forest, the novelist, were members of this com mand.
 The Peoples Savings bank of Rockville has foreclosed the mortgage on the Rockville XI,o ond Monday in February to redeem the property.
 ''Kid" McManus, the Bridgeport jewelry burglar, had his bail reduced on Tuesday from $2O,OOO to $1O,OOO on the criminal charges, but was immediately arrested on 8 civil suit which will require $10,O00 more.
 President Clark and Vice President Reed have been authorized to employ an architect to draft plans for $15O O00 building fol the new depot at Hartford, with a waiting room having 13, 1000 feet of floor space.
 Charles H. Webb has sold the lot on Church street 45x120 next north of Wood building to Wallace B. Fenn, who will com mence the erection of fve-story brick and granite building at once, which when com- pleted will be occupied as @ whole by Stahl & Hegel, the Church street furniture deal CTS.
 "A friend" writes: About forty friends ot Mrs. Davenport called on her Tuesday night at her rooms on Broadway. A delightful even ing was spent in singing, Mrs. Davenport favoring her friends with her rich contraltc voice. She leaves soon for the West. May the ties you are about to form fair Queenie bt as faithful and true as are the friends yor leave behind.
 The oyster beds of Sherman Chipman, o1 Fair Haven, down on the head of the beacl in the harbor promise well, the set being 1e. markedly good, as 8 sample which we saw last evening would amply indicate. There were scores of little oysters attached to bunch of oysters and the set on the who'll bed averages finely. The oystermen general Y are well pleased with the "set" this sea. son.
 Captain Joseph J. He ndley, aged eighty died in Middletown yesterday. He and his brother William were the originators of thu New York and Galveston line of packets The firm of w. & J. Hendley was known everywhere, and during the late rebellion they made large sums of money by supplies of all kinds furnished the belligerents. They were both energetic business men and amassed considerable fortune. William died in Middletown some years ago, leaving his property to Joseph, whose fortune is va rIously estimated at from $1, ,5OO, ,O00 tc &, 500. .0OO